Marijuana: Is it still a gateway drug?

11:02 AM,
Feb. 8, 2014

Pots of marijuana that authorities said were found growing at a Waretown homein October 2013.

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Anti-drug advocates say the legalization of marijuana in two western states is a harbinger of society's growing acceptance of drugs, but narcotics remain a top killer at the Shore and throughout the nation, a fact that was driven home last week with the death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Hoffman died in New York City from an apparent heroin overdose, which made international headlines. But 164 people died in Monmouth and Ocean counties last years from heroin and drug-related overdoses, authorities said. Since the New Year, nine more have died in Ocean County - six from ...